Test 6 · ★★ · Habitats and adaptations
A desert lizard hides under a rock at midday. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: desert lizard · What happens: hide · To what, where: rock
This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Habitats and adaptations» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: A desert lizard hides under a rock at midday.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lizard | det |
| 2 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lizard | compound |
| 3 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hides | nsubj |
| 4 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rock | det |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hides | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 midday | case |
| 9 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hides | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hides | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | a desert lizard | a rock | at midday | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under rock=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
To find some snow to drink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 snow | det |
| 4 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 drink | mark |
| 6 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 find | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | some snow | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent snow=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | some snow not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
To warm up after the cold night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 warm | mark |
| 2 | warm | warm | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 warm | compound:prt |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 night | amod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 warm | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm up | to-infinitive | night | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
To lay eggs in the shade only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 lay | mark |
| 2 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lay | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 shade | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shade | det |
| 6 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 2 lay | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | to-infinitive | eggs | the shade | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in shade=Destination |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
To keep cool out of the hot sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 keep | mark |
| 2 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 keep | xcomp |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sun | amod |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | to-infinitive | the hot sun | cool property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent out sun=Location |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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